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Tribes and US
In early 1998, the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon
State University and the US Forest
Service came together in a long-term
project to provide information on
which to base improved huckleberry
management strategies on the Warm
Springs Reservation and the ceded
areas.
The interest is in cultural survival,
ecosystem health and treaty rights on
usual and accustomed use lands. The
approach seeks to discover, then link
information about ecological, cul
tural, and socioeconomic factors that
influence productivity and
sustainability of huckleberries.
It will also be combined into an
education program that helps all in
terested parties. Core members of
our project team are Warm Springs
tribal members, Oregon State Uni
versity partnership throughout the
project.
Federal land managers have the
difficult and confusing responsibil
ity of managing lands which include
ceded and "usual and accustomed
use" lands. Tribal rights on ceded
lands are not well defined. There are
many questions regarding the wil
derness areas, harvesting and man
aging resources. An interesting and
vital piece of this project is to iden
tify the role fire plays to support
sustainability in natural systems. We
need to reconstruct indigenous man
agement techniques to understand
sustainable pre-contact practices. We
will do this by gathering oral histo
ries, old photos, climate data, using
soil cores and fire scars on trees for
carbon dating, aerial photos and sat
ellite imagery. How did Indians use
fire to manage these lands? Can these
methods be used today?
A most recent accomplishment is
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the July 1, 1997 Memorandum of
Understanding between Mt. Hood
National Forest and the Confeder
ated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation. In this MOU, the tribes
and the Forest Service entered into a
Government to Government relation
ship for "the purpose of establishing
a framework for a working relation
ship that is responsive to the respon
sibilities and interest of each party
with respect to management of the .
huckleberry resource."
This forest-wide MOU initiates
the opportunity for developing co
management strategies for huckle
berry resources and habitat on Na
tional Forest System lands, "to work
together in the formulation and ap
plication of practical long range ob
jectives, plans, and programs." This
MOU and the Oregon State Univer-,
sityConfederated Tribes of Warm
Springs, signed May 1991 formalize
our team's working relationship.
Huckleberries is an important cul
tural sacred plant of the Warm
Springs people. By partnering with
tribal members we will share knowl
edge, expertise and skills for moni
toring huckleberry ecosystems. We
will reconstruct the huckleberry story
by gathering oral histories and de
tailing cultural use and management.
Native elders will be paid
honorariums for their participation.
All the recorded and transcribed in-'
formation gathered will remain with
the Confederated Tribes. It will not
be public information, and will not
be property of Oregon State Univer
sity, nor the Ford foundation.
There will be an introduction in
terview scheduled on: Tuesday, June
29, 1999 at The Museum At Warm
Springs Education Room beginning
at 9 a.m. through 3 p.m. These inter-
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work together
views will be conducted by Evaline
Diaz. Also participating will be the
Cultural Resources staff More inter-
view dates will be held in the future.
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This is an open invitation to el-
ders and their families to participate.
We would like to schedule and work
around the senior citizen's time and
availability. Copies of the recorded
interviews can be requested by the
elder if desired. If rides are needed
please call the Museum at 553-3331
and ask for either Evaline, RoseMary
or JoAnn. Or leave message at 553
5605. Living Traditions
program returns
to W.S. Museum
The Museum at Warm Springs
will again present Living Tradition
programs this summer from Memo
rial Day weekend through Labor Day
.weekend.
Craftpersons will give the fol
lowing demonstrations: July
3-5, Native American Dance.
July 10-11, Baby Boards.
July 17-18, Tule Mats.
July 24-25, Indian Beadwork.
July 31 -Aug. I, Corn Husk Bags.
Aug. 7-8, Native American Dance.
Aug. 14-15, Cultural Foods.
Aug. 2 1 -22, Native American Quilts.
Aug. 28-29, Native Language Program.
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to Governor Kitzhaber. The amended
bill passed the Oregon Senate Tues
day with a vote of 29-0.
v As amended house bill 3609 calls
upon the Oregon Fish and Wildlife
Commission to adopt plans for natural
production of salmon and steel head
in eight sub-basin - Hood, Deschutes,
Fifteen mile Creek, John Day,
'Ummatilla, Walla Walla, Grande
Ronde and Imnaha. The plans , which
- will outline habitat and hatchery ac
: tion to restore natural fish production
in each sub-basin, will be developed
jointly by the state and tribes through
the US v. Oregon forum a federal
court case that addresses mitigation
for loss of fisheries caused by hy
dropower dams on the Columbia
River.
"This bill is a product of negotia
tions from all aspects of state gov
ernment and the Umatilla, Warm
Springs , and Nez Perce Tribes. It
was an unprecedented level of
govcrnment-to-government coop
eration. Hopefully, this level of co
operation will extend to the develop
ment of these sub-basin plans," said
Antone Minthorn, chairman of the
CTUIR's Board of Trustees. "We
look forward to working with the
state to establish and implement res
toration plans that are meaningful,
timely and likely to have a positive
effect on declining fish populations."
House Bill 3609, introduced by
Rep. Jason Atkinson, R-Jacksonville,
originally sought to simply exempt
tribes from Oregon's Wild Fish
Management Policy. White the com-
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promise amendment does not include
the blanket exemption, it does re
quire ODFW and the tribes to nego
tiate and develop plans for the recov
ery of naturally spawning fish popu
lations. The legislation provides that
the Wild Fish Policy does not apply
in the development of these plans.
Gary James. Fisher Manager for
the CTUIR, said the tribes feel that
the wild Fish Policy limits the ability
of fish managers to use hatcheries to
help rebuild depleted salmon runs.
The tribes want to use hatchery
supplementation, the practice of
planting hatchery fish in streams so
that they return to spawn naturally.
In testimony before the Joint
Stream Restoration and Species En
hancement committee may 18, James
said Tribes "seek some flexibility
that will allow fishery managers the
opportunity to take actions that will
help rebuild and restore Columbia
Basin salmon populations before it is
too late."
ODFW's use of hatcheries has
been primarily to raise salmon popu
lations for harvest, not to increase
sustained, naturally-spawning runs.
In the past, ODFW has killed hatchery-
produced adult salmon and steel
head that have returned to rivers and
streams to spawn because there was
no intent to let them spawn and
supplement depressed natural pro
duction. " The hatchery supplementation
component of restoration plans will
now be allowed to proceed at levels
deemed necessary for each unique
sub-basin without predetermined
limitations," said James.
The compromise amendment was
reached June 1 1 in an unprecedented,
impromptu meeting in Salem that
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included representatives from Oregon
Jov. John Kitzhaber s otnee, Re
publicans and Democrats trom the
Oregon Legislature, and tribal lead
ers. The amended bill passed out of
Committee in face of political pres
sure from the Native Fish Society
and Oregon Trout, as well as from
editorials in some of the state's lead
ing newspapers. Fuethermorem, Will
Stelle Jr. .Regional Administrator
for the National Marine Fisheries
Service, on June 4 sent a letter to
Oregon Senate President Brady
Adams opposing the legislation.
Gov. Kitzhaber had intimated he
might veto the bill as originally in
troduced, but his salmon policy ana
lyst, Roy Hemongway, was a key
player in June 1 1 amendment dis
cussions. In addition to Atkinson, key leg
islative players included Sense. Dave
Nelson, R-Pendleton; Joan Dukes,
D-Astoria; Frank Shields,
D-Portland; and Ted Ferrioli, R-John
Day; and Reps, ken Messerle,
R-Coos Bay; Terry N Thompson,
D-Newport; and Bob
Jenson.I-Pendleton.
Hatchery supplement, the prac
tice promoted in this legislation, was
a key tool used by the CTUIR and
ODFW in their cooperative efforts
to restore salmon populations in the
Umatilla Basin For nearly 70 years
salmon were extinct in the Umatilla
River are now successfully spawn
ing and inhabiting the umatilla. bi
ologists used hatchery supplemen
tation to jump-start fish populations
in Umatilla Basin and plan to even
tually stop using the tool if the popu
lation are healthy enough to sustain
themselves.
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